Jonathan Snow Discovers
Ancient Mantle Rock

Photos courtesy of Heinz Feldmann, Max-Planck Insitut fuer Chemie, Mainz, Germany

Jonathan Snow (left), assistant professor of geosciences at UH, inspects a haul of rocks scooped up from the floor of the Arctic Ocean found to date back two billion years.

Photo courtesy of Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany

The mantle rock was collected during an expedition to the North Pole aboard a 400-foot-long icebreaker, a research vessel designed to break through the ice.

High-resolution photos are available by contacting Lisa Merkl at lkmerkl@uh.edu or 713-743-8192.

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